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In 1719 the officers were Charles Brodhead, Supervisor ; Martin Bogart, Constable and Collector; Capt. William Nottingham, Nicolaus Dupuis, Assessors; Louis Bevier, Jan Van Campen, Fence-Viewers; Andries Van Leuven, Surveyor of Highways; Jacobus De Lamater, Peter Mou- rits, Overseers of the Poor; William Cock, Viewer of Stallions.
In 1720 the officers were Charles Brodhead, Supervisor; Gysberi Roosa, Constable and Collector ; Capt. Nottingham, Nicolaus Dupuis, Assessors ; Louis Bevier, James Robson, Fence-Viewers ; Jacobus De Lamater, Surveyor of High- ways; Capt. Nottingham, Lieut. Cock, Overseers of the Poor; William Cock, Viewer of Stallions.
In 1721 the officers were William Cock, Constable and Collcetor; Charles Brodhead, Supervisor; William Not- tingham, Nicolaus Dupuis, Robert Beatty, Louis Bevier, Fence-Viewers; Louis Bevier, Surveyor of Highways;
# The name appears in this form in all the early records, but in Inter years Morris.
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William Nottingham, Thomas Cook, Overseers of the Poor; Capt. Richard Brodhead, Stallion-Viewer.
And thus, step by step, the offices were increased and the number of persons required to administer publie trusts increased until a full town organization was developed very similar to those of the present time.
We give still further the names of the full list of town officers at the end of each decade down to the time of the Revolution.
In 1730 the officers chosen were Richard Piek, Super- viser ; Martin Bogart, Benjamin Dupuis, Assessors ; Martin Middagh, Johannis Thomas, Collectors; Jury Beam, Con- stable ; Jury Beam, Surveyor of Highways ; Richard Piek, Daniel Brodhead, John Dewitt, Overseers of the Poor; Andries Vau Leuven, Peter Cantine, Johannis Dewitt, Fenec-Viewers.
In 1740 the officers chosen were Capt. Daniel Brodhead, Supervisor ; Samuel Davis, Valentine Smith, Constables ; Jacob Keyser, Frederick Davis, Surveyors of Highways; Capt. Albert Pawling, Frederick Schoonmaker, Assessors ; Robert Macgingis, Richard Lounsbery, Collectors; Louis Bevier, Hendrickus Krom, Aldert Kiersteden, Overseers of the Poor; Egbert Brink, Thomas Keator, Fenee-Viewers; Johannis Eltinge, Edward Whittaker, Stallion-Viewers.
The officers chosen in 1750 were Peter Cantine, Super- visor ; Christopher Davis, Matthew Cantine, Constables and Collectors; Johannis Dewitt, Nicholas Louw, Joris Middagh, Assessors; Isane Hasbrouck, Jr .. Surveyor of the Highways ; Samuel Mourits, Daniel Brodhead, Martin Middagh, Overseers of the Pour ; Louis Bevier, Jr., Town Clerk ; Matthew Newkirk, Martin De Lamater, Fence- Viewers ; John Van Leuven, Daniel Brodhead, Stallion- Viewers.
The officers chosen in 1760 were Wessel Brodhead, Su- pervisor ; Isaac Davis, Abraham Cantine, Constables and Collectors ; Cornelius Tack, Thomas Vandemark, Surveyors of Highways ; Louis Bevier, Isnae Hasbrouck, Assessors ; Cornelius Brinck, Hendrick Roosa, Johannis Kestor, Over- seers of the Poor; Matthew Cantine, Town Clerk; Chris- topher Davis, Melgart Keator, Fence-Viewers; Andries Dewitt, Martin De Lamater, Stallion-Viewers; Capt. Fred- erick Davis, Pound-Keeper.
The officers of 1770 were Levi Pawling, Supervisor; Cotton Smith, EJward Lounsbury, Constables and Collect. ors ; Andries I. Dewitt, Johannis Tack, Courad Du Bois (for Shokan), Surveyors of Highways; Hendrick Smith, Corne- lius Tack, Assessors; Abraham Cantine, Solomon Van Wagener, Overseers of the Poor; John Cantine, Town Clerk ; Isaac Davis, Solomon Terwilliger, Fenee-Viewers ; Charles W. Brodhead, Alexander Enni-t, Hendrickus John- son, John Cushneham, Firemen ; Parish Davis, Pound- Kecper.
We add the officers at the elose of one more decade, that uf 1780, three years after the organization of the State gov- erneut: Matthew Cantine, Supervisor ; Adam Hoofman, Thomas D. Schoonmaker, Jacob Snyder, Benjamin Ackerly, Cornelius Keator, Assessors; Abraham Strattou, Philip Hardenbergh, Constables and Collectors; Felton Smith, Jacob I. Hasbrouck, Overseers of the Poor; Cornelius E. Wynkoop, Ephraim Chambers, Aldort Snyder, Cornelius
Brink, Cornelius Keator, Gardon Hardenbergh, Surveyors of the Highways, for Shokan road Andries J. Dewitt, Jan Crispell, Surveyors of Highways ; David Bevier, Johannes Tack, Solomon Van Wagener, Commissioners of Highways ; Nicholas Keator, Henry Inerich, Fence-Viewers ; John Cantine, Town Clerk.
The town elerk was at first simply elerk of the trustees ; or, as he is sometimes termed, " bookkeeper to the trustees." Their names are not regularly given in the reports of the annual elections until 1742, but they are easily obtained from the books of deeds, the records of which are attested by the elerks. William Nottingham, the first clerk, was evidently employed for this work by the trustees, both of Rochester and of Marbletown. He is said to have come from England with Col. Nicolls at the time of the sur- render of New Netherlands to the British erown in 1664.
Col. Henry Beckman, who was a trustee of both towns, resided in Kingston, and gave his assistance to the local trustees. The similarity in the early records, the forms and wording of the entries, and the handwriting, all indi- ente that Col. Beekman and William Nottingham brought to the discharge of their duties iu both towns a degree of elerical aud professional ability not perhaps so fully pos- sessed by the sturdy men associated with them, and who were engaged in the actual work of subduing the forests and securing homes for themselves and their children in these towns.
PRINCIPAL TOWN OFFICERS, 1703 TO ISSO. SUPERVISOPS.
1703-1710 (no supervisors appear to have been elected until 1710) ; 1711, Capt. Charle: Bro.thead ; 1712. Capt. John Pawling; 1712- 14. Capt. Thomas Garton; 1715-22, Capt. Charles Brodhead ; 1723-26, Albert Pawling; 1727, Cornelius Elting: 1728, Thomas Jansen; 1720-32, Itichard Pick; 1735 40, Capt. Daniel Brod- head; 1741-45, Lieut. Johaun's Dewitt; 1746-48, Wesse! Brod- head; 1749-50, Peter Cantine; 1751-58, Levi Pawling ; 1759-61, Wessel Brodhead; 1765-71, Levi Pawling; 1772, Louis Bevier ; 1773-76, Levi Pawling; 1777-78, Cornelius E. Wynkoop; 1779- $2, Matthew Cantine; 1783-87, James Oliver ; 1788-89, Cornelius F. Wynkoop; 1790-96, James Oliver; 1797-98, John A. Dewitt ; 1790-1800, Joseph Hasbrouck ; 1801, Jacob I. Delamater; 1802- 10, Moses Cantine, Jr .; 1811-11, Jacob Delamonter; 1815-21, Alerhan: G. Hardenbergh : 1822-26. Charles Cushney ; 1827-28, Isaac S. Hasbrouck; 1829-57, Matthew Oliver; 1838, Charles Cushney : 1839-40, James Ofiver ; 1541-42,-Jacob L. Hasbrouck ; 1813, Matthew Dewitt; 1811, John Chambers: 1845-47, Cor- nelius M. Van Buren ; 1848, George Chambers ; 1849-51, Cornelius M Van Buren ; 1852-53, Thomas D. W. Robinson : 1854, George Chambers; 1855-57, Cornelius Hardenbergh; 1858-59, James M. Cooper ; 1860, Daniel S. Vandemark ; 1861-65, George Cham- bers; 1866-67, J.evi Lounsbery; 1868, Daniel S. Vandemark ; 1869-70, Gross Hasbrouck ; 1571-73, John D. Mowris; 1874, Louis Bevier; 175, Cornelius Hardenbergh; 1876-77, Louis Bevier; IST8, Silas Snyder ; 1879-80, Louis Bevier.
TOWN CLERKS.
1703-27, William Nottingham ; 1728-32, Thomas Nottingham : 1733- 35, Richard Pick : 1736, Johannis Elting : 1737-44, Richard Pick ; 1745-5%, Louis Bevier, Jr .; 1759-61. Matthew Cantine: 1762, Isaac Daris; 1763-81, John Cantine; 1752-92, Jacob I. Hus- brock ; 1793-97, John A. Dewitt; 1798-1501, John N. Cantine ; 1802-21, Jobn lounsbery; 1822-28, Matthew Dewitt; 1:29- 33. Hlenezer Lounsbery ; 1834-39, Samuel Stilwell; 1810-11, Egbert Seboominaker; 1s12, Samael Stilwell; 1813-44, William Depew: 1845, George Davis: 1816-17, Frederick II. Davis; 1548, George Davis; 1849-51, William Depew; 1852-69, Rad-
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cliff De Lamater ; 1861-65; Thomas P. Ostrander; 1866-80, Rad- cliff De Lamater.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1-30, Cornelius Dewitt ; 1831, Charles Cushuey, Ebenezer Lounsbery ; 1532, Isaac J., Hasbrouck ; 1833, Ebenezer Louusbery, Cornelius E. Wynkoop : 1834, Abraham G. Hardenbergh : 1835, Charles Cush- ney; 1836, Isaac L. Hasbrouck; 1837, Ebenezer Lounsbery ; 1538, Cornelius E. Wynkoop ; 1839, Abraham G. Hardenbergh ; 1810, James NI. Elmendorph; 1841, Charles Cushney ; 1842. Cornelius E. Wynkoop; 1843, Abraham G. Hardenbergh; 1844, Daniel Merritt, Jacob A. Snyder: 1845, Isaac I. Hasbrouck, Charles Cushney : 1546, Daniel Merritt; 1847, Abraham G. Har- denbergh ; 1348, Hiram F. Gray; Ist9, Teneyck D. W. Verder ; 1850, Anthony Benson; 1851, Abraham G. Hardenbergb ; 1852, Beverly R. Hasbrouck ; 1853, Teneyck D. W. Veeder, Daniel Bodley; 1551, Anthony Benson, Hector Abeel; 1855, Hector Abeel; 1556, Matthew Winchell : 1857, Teneyck D. W. Veeder ; 1558, Howard Hasbrouck; 1859, Ilector Abcel; 1860. Dauiel Bodley ; 1961, Thomas Everett ; 1862, Franklin D. L. Montanye (same to fill vacancy ) : 1803, Hector Abrel; 1364. Daniel Bodley ; 1855, Thomas Everett; 1866, Franklin D. L. Montanye: 1807, Lewis S. Markle ; IS68, John Brodhead; 1869, Thomas Everett, Hector Abeel ; 1370, Franklin D. L. Moutanye; IsTI, Hector Abeel; 1572, John Brodhead; 1873, Thomas Everett; IS74, George Raymond : 1575, Hector Abeel: 1876, John Brodhead; 1877, Simon P. Lyons; 1578, George Raymond; 1379, Ilector Abeel; ISSO, Lucas W. Krom.
PLACES OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.
The first entry in the records showing the exact place of trustee meetings occurs June 19, 1733, when they met " at the house of Janitie Davis." Not long after that there is mentioned " the house of Widow Davis." This was the place until 1741. June 8, 1742. the trustees met " at the now dwelling-house of Frederick Davis."
This continues for twenty years or more, and then all mention of the house is omitted from the records. The first Tuesday of April, 1813, the town-meeting was hell " at the house of Isaac Bloomi." This was about one mile north of Stony Ridge, and was an old tavern for a long series of years. House taken down about twenty-five years avo. Property now owned by George W. Bloom, son of the Isaac Bloom mentioned above. The meetings continued to be hell at the house of Isaac Bloom. The same honse was afterwards kept by John W. Wood An owner earlier 8: m. Bloom is said to have been Conaway. Pursuant to a vob: in 1852, the next meeting -- 1853 --. was held at the B: use of James D. Gillespie, the present Freer House, at State Ridge, and the town-meetings have been continued a: that house to the present time.
V .- VILLAGES. STONE RIDGE
is the largest village in the town. It is about equally dis- tant from the Esoque Creek and the Rondout. The present business may be summed up as follows : The hotel of Wil- Vom Savaze; the harness-shop and town clerk's office, by Relehit De Lamater; Dr. J. Vandemark's office ; Dr. Her- :: Craft's office ; the store and post-office, by Frederick S. ' st: Warnen ; wagonmaker and wheelwright, by Benjamin BE atty ; store, by John G. Kimball; tailor-shop, by James S. Decker; hardware- and tin-shop, George H. Davis; more, by George Reymar; meat-market, by Milton El- ... dorf ; silversmith, S. J. Bond, and doing a variety of Mer business in the same building ; drug-store, by S. II.
Lounsbury ; shoe-shop, by B. I. Rider ; blacksmith, Daniel C. Schoonmaker; blacksmith-shop, Alexander II. Davis ; marble-yard, by Wands & Davis; justice office of Hector Abeel; Excelsior Hotel, by Chester Freer; blacksmith- and wagon-shop, by George Burnett and Joseph Conner, the latter the wagonmaker; undertaker, Joshua C. Schoon- maker; undertaker, De Witt C. Winchell ; and a short distance from the village James K. Ten Eyck, also an un- dertaker.
MARBLETOWN
is a post-office, retaining the old name of the town. It is in the valley of the Esopus, not far from the eastern angle of the town. At this point there is the wagon-shop of Martin E. Markle, and another by John Murdock ; hotel, by C. D. O. Burr; and a blacksmith-shop, by Leonard Adams.
LYONSVILLE
is a neighborhood near the Rochester line, in the vicinity of which are several quarries. The place takes its name from the Lyons family, who have been located there for many years. At Lyonsville there are three stores, -- one by John W. Wager, another by John F. Delamater, and a third by Simon P. Lyons.
KRIPPLE BUSH
is a handlet near the southwest boundary. The present business consists of one store by Isaae Wilklow, and au- other by James A. Wood ; and a hotel near, by John Acker; a blacksmith-shop, by Henry Ten Hagen.
HIGH FALLS
is situated on the Rondout Creek, near the line of Rosen- dale. The present business consists of several stores, by John Brodhead, Israel H. Snyder, Paris Gray, and Charles L. Hardenbergh ; two hotels, one by Widow Julia Dono- van, and another by L. Depay Davis ; two bakeries, one by William P. De Lamater, and the other by Anthony Daym ; two meat-shops, one by John F. Church, and another by Luke B. Krum; blacksmith-shop, by Johu II. Van Hagen ; wagon-shop, by Martin Van Hagen.
VILLAGE ON THE LAPLAH ROAD.
This is a thickly-settled neighborhood, in the vicinity of a large number of quarries.
RED SCHOOL-HOUSE DISTRICT.
This is a thickly-settled neighborhood,-with a school- house, church, and several dwellings,-with several quarries Lear there.
GLADT KLIPT.
This is a thickly-settled neighborhood, near the Esopus Creek, having a church and a school-house, a store by Ed- ward Bush, a store by Peter Johnson, a blacksmith-shop by Jacob S. Krum, a carpenter-shop by Simon Bush.
VI .-- SCHOOLS.
There are but few reminiscences of the schools during the first century after settlement. The influence of the learned ministry of the Reformed Church was always for education, and no doubt much was accomplished. Under the earlier school laws school commissioners were appointed
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for a few years, the first in 1796, as follows: Lemuel Wenshal, Jacobus Keator, Samuel Frame, Christopher Snyder, Jacob I. Hasbrouck, Abraham Sahler, Daniel Brodhead. After that other names of commissioners ap- pear : Moses Cantine, Jr., Simeon Depuy, Daniel North, John N. Cantine, Simon I. Van Wagener, John A. Dewitt, Frederick Wood. After 1799 no further action appears with reference to schools for fourteen years.
At the annual town-meeting of 1813 it was voted to comply with the requirements of the aet for the establish- ment of common schools, passed June 19, 1812. Com- missioners and inspectors were chosen, and this system was continued until 1843. During this period the following persons served one or more years each as commissioners of common schools: Joseph Hasbrouck, John A. Dewitt, Josiah Hollister, Lemnel Winchell, Andrew Hill, Lewis I. Hasbrouck, Isaac De La Montanye, Matthew Dewitt, Martin Crispell, Jonathan Westbrook, Jr., Isaae S. Has- brouck, Abraham G. Hardenbergh, John Lounsbery, Jacob Chambers, Peter Crispell, Jr., Charles Cushney, Cornelius H. Depuy, John Teas, James Oliver, John Chambers, Abram I. Vandemark, Peter Ladenbergh, James H. El- mendorph, Abrahain L. Sahler, Orr Frame, Abraham Robinsou, Martin Cantine, Garret De Lamater,, Isaac S. Hasbrouck, Jacob HI. Davis, Andries Schoonmaker, William L. Merritt. Many of these citizens served for a long series of years.
During the same period, 1813-43, the following persons served as inspectors of common schools one or more year's cach : Charles Cantine, Benjamin Hardenbergh, Christopher Snyder, David Abbey, Jacob Chambers, Jr., Abraham G. Hardenbergh, Isaac S. Hasbrouck, Charles Cantine, Gordon Craig, Isane De Lamontanye, David Abbey, John Louns- bery, Wessel Brodhead, Gordon Craig, Johu H. Carl, George Keator, Conrad Brodhead, William Schutt, Abra- ham I. Hasbrouck, Lewis I. Hasbrouck, John H. Carle, Abraham Robinson, Peter Crispell, Jr., Abraham G. Har- denbergh, Christiana T. Paulison, Matthew Dewitt, Samuel Stillwell, Cornelius E. Wynkoop, Cornelius L. Vandyke, Ebenezer Lounsbery, Stephen N. Ostrander, William A. Inndon, Jocob I. Hasbrouck, James Cantine, John Bogart, Jr., Johne Lounsbery.
The system of supervision by town superintendents of common schools commenced in 1844, and continued until 1856, when distriet commissioners were chosen, and all control of the schools by town authority ceased.
The town superintendents elected in Marbletown were the following, viz. :
Electel Annually .- 1814, George Chambers; 1845, Ed- ward Lounsbery ; 1846, Malcolm W. Mead; 1847, Edward Lounsbery.
Elected Biennially .- 184S, Charles H. Clearwater; 1850, Abraham G. Hardenbergh; 1852, Lewis H. Wickes; 1854 (none recorded) ; 1855, Franklin D. L. Montanye.
The following report is interesting as showing the state of the schools fifty years ago :
SCHOOL REPORT, MARBLETOWN, 1529.
Districts. No. 1 67 $20.18
No. 2. ....
62 ...
Districts.
No. of Children. Money Granted.
No. 3
6-1
$27.87
No. 4
5G
24.59
No. 5
38.32
No. 6
32.66
No. 7.
43
19.60
No. S.
52
22.65
No. 9
95
41.37
No. 10.
33
16.55
No. 11
32
13.94
No. 12
70
30.4S.
No. 13.
59
95.77
No. 1, Joint Olive
31
13.50
No. 2,
=
13
5.66
No. 3,
42
18.29
No. 2, Hurley and New Paltz ...
2.1
10.45
From an old Kingston paper we clip the following ad- vertisement :
"SCHOOLMASTER WANTED.
"Wanted. a schoolmaster in Distriet No. 6, Marbletown, about seven miles from the village of Kingston, on the main post-road. The situation of the school-house is pleasant, and every facility will be given to provi le comfortably for the teacher.
"Conxemes E. WYNKoor, " MATTHEW OLIVER, " Jons A. DEWITT,
Truxtecs.
" MARBLETOWN, March 20, ISIS."
The present condition of the schools with reference to the number of children, the attendance, and the amount of money disbursed is concisely shown in the annexed latest report. It forms a strong contrast with that of 1829, given above :
COMMISSIONERS' REPORT, MARCH, ISSO.
Number of districts.
11
Number of children of school age ... 1199
Average attendance previous year ?.. 404.119
Publie money on the basis of the number of children ..
$$90.36
Public money on the basis of attendance. 8790.49
Equal district quota ..
$809.20
Library money
$46.01
VIJ .- CHURCHES.
REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH AT MARBLE- TOWN.
This body was incorporated Feb. 7, 1789. The certifi- cate was signed by Andrew'J. De Witt, David Bevier, Isaac Davis, Thomas Schoonmaker, Henry Mowris, An- drew Snyder, Sinieon Depuy. and Isaac Robinson, consti- tuting the board of elders and deacons. The paper was verified before Judge Wynkoop, witnessed by Abraham Cantine and Cornelius E. Wynkoop. Under the colonial government the church had no doubt been incorporated in pursuance of the request cinbodied in the petition, which we give in full, as of interest to several towns in this part of the county :
"PETITION FOR A CHARTER FOR CERTAIN DUTCH CHURCHES IN ULSTER COUNTY.
"TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HENRY MOORE, Baronet, Captain-General, and Governor-in-chief of the Province of New York and the terri- tories therevn depending in America, Vice-Admiral of the same, &cª. &cª.
" In Council. " The petition of Dirk Homeyn, Minister of the Churches of Mar- bletown, Rochester, and Wawarsink, in U'ister County ; Jacob Hlas- brouck, Solomon Van Wagenea, and Levi Pauling, Elders of Marble- town; Abraham Koustable, Hendrick Smith, Frederick Shorter, aud Cornelius Tack, Jun'r, Deacons of Marbletown ; Nicolas Keter, Jacob Hoornbeck, Dirk Hoornbeeck, and Elias Depuy, Elders of Rochester ;
" The average daily attendance is given in decimals.
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No. of Children. Money Granted.
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TOWN OF MARBLETOWN.
Frederick Shenigh, Isaiah Robinson, Cornelins Dosterhoudt, and Ben- jamin Merkel, Deacona of Rochester; Lodewyck Schoonmaker, and Jocohus Bush, June, Kirk- Masters of Rochester; Johannes Gerardus Hardenbergh and Johannes Bevier, Elders of Wawarsink ; Stephen Dewitt and John Egbertse Dewitt, Deacous of Wawarsink ; and An- dries Bevier and Benjamin Bevier, Kirk-Masters of Wawarsink,-
" Humbly Sheweth, That this Province was originally settled by emigrants from the Unitel Provinces, subject to the States-General in Europe, many of whom set themselves down in the said County of Ulster, and their descendants have long since planted the churches above named, and have decent elifiees iu which the worship of God is carried on according to the usages of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Churches of the United Provinces in Europe; that the said churches of Marbletown, Rochester, aud Wawarsink each enjoy small real-estates given by well-disposed persons for the Maintenance of the worship of God, and the members of the same, heing uuable at present to support more than one minister through the diseonrage- ment to farther bracfactions, for want of corporate powers to hold Estates to pions nses, and preserve and hand them down to posterity secure against any secular Applications of the same, and being very desirous of the Privilege of an Incorporation so often granted to Episcopal Churches and other Dutch Churches of their Persuasion, both in this and the Province of New Jersey, --
"Your petitioners, who appeal with the utmost confidence to the whole Government for the Fidelity and Loyalty of the People of their Persuasion, most humbly pray your Excellency to grant them his Majesty's Letters Patent, under the great seal of this Province, creat- ing them a body politie and corporate in Deel and Name, by the Name and Style of the Minister, Elders, and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant United Dutch Churches of Marbletown, Rochester, and Wawarsink, and that they and their successors may thereby he en- abled to acquire and hold a competent Real Estate, and injoy such other Power aud Privileges as may be necessary for the pious por- poses aforesaid, nearly similar to those granted to the Low Dutch Protestants of the Cities of New York and Albany, and Townships of Kingston and Schenectady, and other places to be specified in a draft of a Charter which they hey have bereafter to present, or that your Excellency would be pleased to grant theu. sucu ether aid in the Prosecution of the Inudable design above mentioned, as to your Ex- celleney shall seem meet. And your petitioners, presmming upon the Wisdomn, Generosity, and Impartiality of the Government under which they live, will ever pray, &cª.
" D. ROMEYN, Minister, - ou behalf of themselves and the rest of
" LEVE PAWLING, " JACOB HOERNBECK, " JOHANNIS BEVIER, the Petitioners.
" NEW YORK, 1,6G."
The date of the organization of this church is given in the " Manual" as 1737. Previous to this time the people of Marbletown were in connection with the church of Kingston. Fifty-eight years earlier the pastor at Kingston, in reporting concerning his charge, speaks of having twenty members at Marbletown. This was in 1679, ten years after the settlement. The date 1737 is not shown by the records how in possession of the church. They date only from 1743, at the time when the building of a house of worship was under consideration. A building committee was ap- pointed Dec. 1, 1743, consisting of Albert. Pawling, Hen- drick Krom, Louis Bevier, Johannes Dewitt, Peter Cantine, Wessel Brodhead, Benjamin Depuy. Six members exe- cuted a contract with the other member --- Peter Cantine -- that he should act as superintendent of the work. We give the contract below as a specimen of the number of words used in old times to express a few simple statements. In that respect the document is a decided curiosity :
" Wh reas, the inhabitants of Marbletown on the Ist day of De- een.ber, 1721, did assemble with. in said town, and then and there am- sally did agree to build a church for Divine worship at Marbletown, ani ma.le prudential orders concerning the method that they should
proceed in erecting said church, reference being had unto said orders that the regulations may more fully and at large appear ; and whereas, on the 17th day of December, 1743, the inhabitants of Marbletown wiet and assembled together, and in pursuance of the before-recited order elected and appointed by plurality of voices seven managers --- Capt. Albert Paulding, Mr. Hendrick Krom, Mr. Louis Bevier, Mr. Johannis Dewitt, Mr. Peter Cantine, Mr. Weszell Bro:thead, and Mr. Benjamin Depuy-to build and ercet a church at Marldetown for Di- vine service, as aforesaid, according to the prudential orders before recited, as by relation thereunto being had may more and at large appear; and whereas, on the 21th day of December, 1743, the seven managers did wieet und assemble together, and by the power and au- thority to thein given by virtue of the before-recited order did agree with Mr. Peter Cantine, one of the said seven managers, to be the Iuspector of all the work that shall be done, and providing of mate- rials and workmen for erecting said church, for the sum of £13 lawful money of this province ; and the said Mr. Peter Cantine shall from time to time, and at all times, take and receive orders and advice from Capt. A. Pawling, Mr. H. Krom, Mr. L. Bevier, Mr. J. Dewitt, Mr. W. Brodhead, and Mr. B. Depuy, or the major part of them, what work he shall do first, and so for the second and third, and until the church be finished ; and the said Mr. Peter Cantine sball keep a just and fair book of accounts for that purpose, of what money be hath applied, and to what purpose, and what work accounts he hath re- ceived, and from whom, and is to be all conformable to the above orders before recited, and the said Mr. Peter Cantine or his heirs, ex- eentors, and administrators shall be accountable to the said Albert Pawling, Hendrick Krom, Louis Bevier, Johannes Dewitt, Wessel Brodhead, and Benjamin Depuy, to thein, or the major part of them, aud their receipts for so much in part or in full shall be to the said Peter Cantine a good voucher an } discharge, and the said Peter Can- tine doth bind himself, his beirs, executors, and administrators to fulfill and keep every article and clause contained in this condition, and in conformity to the before-recited orders ; then this present ob- ligation to be utterly void and of none effect, or clse to stand and re- mais in full force, power, and virtne in the law."
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